Why should someone choose Harvard over Yale?

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<p>@Dbate - Yale is stereotypically considered more “relaxed” and easygoing, Harvard more up tight (e.g. conservative). Politically they’re both very liberal.</p>

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<p>When people say that a school is liberal, does it mean that the school intentionally promotes liberal ideals and opinions? Like if I am blessed to get accepted to either, will there be alot of pro-choice and gay rights demonstrations? I hope not.</p>

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<p>“I find this silly, but to each his own. <3”</p>

<p>It’s just as silly as a liberal person not applying to evangelical-type schools. I wouldn’t fault them at all. I fail to see how this is silly at all.</p>

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<p>@dbate</p>

<p>um. there won’t be rallies or demonstrations because it is assumed that everyone (or nearly everyone) is pro-choice and supports equal rights for homosexuals. That’s not to say there’s a contemptuous feeling for people who are disagree, but you won’t just fit right in.</p>

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<p>Well I will be a science major, so I doubt any discussions of that nature will really come up. I do think that the whole liberal/conservative thing is only important in politics, I mean in real life would someone actually not talk to someone bc they had different ideological views?</p>

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<p>Well…I plan to be a part of any pro-choice demonstrations that take place, so…can’t really objectively answer you there. =P</p>

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<p>Prestige and location, really.</p>

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<p>the saying “where fun goes to die” is associated with UChicago, not Harvard.</p>

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<p>To the person who said we go hard in harvard…that’s what she said…</p>

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<p>Squaregirl, not to offend you but I don’t understand how anyone can justify killing innocent children. I don’t want to start a discussion about it bc we have different opinions and won’t agree, but I just can not understand. I know that a woman in that situation has a difficult choice, but the child is always innocent.
Just my 2 cents.</p>

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<p>Dbate, irrelevant. Please, let us not even go there.</p>

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<p>When I hear someone say something like “I don’t understand how someone could possibly believe (insert view held by many sane people),” I lose a lot of respect for them. We don’t know each other so this doesn’t matter but saying something like that makes you sound really closed-minded and possibly arrogant, regardless of the subject.</p>

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<p>Please…stop. Take it to PM or whatever.</p>

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<p>^Agreed. </p>

<p>As for me, I find the atmosphere of opportunity without spoonfeeding to be inspiring. Its attitude towards students–that you can get anything you want, but we won’t give it to you–jives with me better than Yale’s.</p>

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<p>My cousin has said that it’s a better/larger focus scene for science/math concentrations (although she was vague in everything, so meh), and as others have sad, Cambridge > New Haven.</p>

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<p>This is totally off-topic, but i do harbor contemptuous feelings for whoever that denounces/criminalizes homosexuality and denies homosexuals of the right to happiness like any other straight person. If that topic comes up, i’ll try to convince you, but if i still can’t then i wont talk to ya… lolz </p>

<p>No comment on abortion. </p>

<p>I prefer Yale’s laissez-faire atmosphere. Harvard seems a tad too cut throat competitive and serious. Like someone wrote in another thread, Harvard is like Obama (as in industrious & focused on the goal), and Yale is like Bill Clinton (as in talented but all over the place, happy-go-lucky & fun-loving) - even though that was technically about law schools but i feel the analogies still apply.</p>

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<p>Well, Dbate, I completely disagree. And we’ll leave it at that. =P</p>

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<p>And I prefer to think of Harvard as FDR, myself. :slight_smile: Yale doesn’t deserve the Bush legacy, but honestly, when I think of Yale…it does come up. Even though my girl Hillary did law there. ;)</p>

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<p>A lot of people have been bringing up Harvard’s math/science programs, but what about the Humanities scene? I’m much more interested in English, history, philosophy, sociology, etc…any insights? :)</p>